Protiviti promotes Rita Gatt and Prakash Rajandran to managing director
The Australian arm of global consultancy Protiviti has appointed two new managing directors, Rita Gatt and Prakash Rajandran, while also making five associate director promotions.
Gatt joins Protiviti as a managing director from Deloitte, where she has served as chief strategy and transformation officer for risk advisory, while Rajandran has been promoted to the top level after joining the firm’s risk and technology consulting team in 2019.
The pair of additions take Protiviti’s managing director count to fourteen, while five of the firm’s professionals have moved one step closer to that goal, with Brooke Osborne, Daniel Agosta, Kim Ngo, Romina Battaglin, and Antonio Chua all promoted to associate director.
Rita Gatt brings more than two decades worth of experience in regulation and risk leadership to Protiviti’s technology and cybersecurity practice, over half of that spent at Deloitte, where she most recently served as national lead partner for regulation, cybersecurity & risk agenda, supporting clients across the financial services, government, and telecommunications sectors.
“There’s never been a more important time to connect security with purpose,” said Gatt, who also previously served as a strategy & analytics leader at GE Capital, said upon joining the firm in Melbourne. “The real challenge isn’t just staying ahead of threats, it’s helping people feel confident in a digital world that’s constantly changing.”
Prakash Rajandran meanwhile comes from an audit background, both with Ernst & Young for a decade between Asia and Australia, and in an internal capacity for a further decade at transport and logistics company Asciano and its successor Linx Cargo, where he latterly served as head of risk and insurance before joining Protiviti in Melbourne in early 2019.
Congratulating Rajandran on his promotion, Protiviti said on LinkedIn: “Over the years, Prakash has consistently raised the bar with his deep expertise in risk management and internal audit, his client-first approach, and his tech-savvy leadership, delivering real impact for both our clients and our teams. We can’t wait to see what comes next under his leadership.”
Associate directors
Protiviti is also celebrating the end-of-year promotions of five new associate directors in its audit, risk consulting, and cybersecurity divisions in Sydney and Melbourne, who have all spent between two and a half and seven years at the firm and specialise in various areas of their fields. Among them, Romina Battaglin is the most recent arrival, joining from KPMG in the middle of 2023.
